[GreenKeys] OT - Highly stealthy Linux trojan may have infected victims for years...

Rodger Casey rodger at thecaseys.org
Wed Dec 10 21:34:01 EST 2014


Thank you, Dave!  There must be lists where the ceaseless drone of OS wars--promulgated mostly by those with experience in the fewest OSes--is acceptable if not appropriate.


> On Dec 10, 2014, at 3:19 PM, Dave Horsfall <dave at horsfall.org> wrote:
> 
>> On Wed, 10 Dec 2014, Chris Elmquist wrote:
>> 
>> Of the Top 500 fastest computers in the world, 485 run Linux, one runs 
>> Windows.
>> 
>> http://www.top500.org/statistics/list/
> 
> Not doubting you or anything, but I'm always suspicious of figures like 
> that.  How, exactly, are they derived?  Are they self-reported, or do they 
> rely upon an easily-customised banner, or use an equally-spoofed TCP/IP 
> fingerprint, or what?
> 
> In an effort to drag this back on topic, is there an RTTY equivalent of a 
> CW user's "fist", such as a variation in the warble?  Note that advances 
> are being made in the area of measuring precise power-supply fluctuations 
> in your local grid, and ambient light variations, etc.
> 
> -- 
> Dave Horsfall DTM (VK2KFU)  "Bliss is a MacBook with a FreeBSD server."
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